Re: Lose the tagline (permanently)

[Urs Liska]

Hi Abraham,

Am 23.02.2016 um 13:56 schrieb Abraham Lee:
> Dear Dev team,
>
> ...
>
> I'm not sure what prompted
> Han-wen or Jan or whoever to set a default value to it, but I wonder if
> it's time for it to go?
>
> Just some thoughts. I love the quality of LP scores. Removing the default
> tagline value would make it even more professional (to me, at least), even
> for the budding new users. Feel free to shoot now. What do you all think
> about my proposal?
>
> Best Regards,
> Abraham

I think I would support letting the tagline default to "".
Removing it altogether wouldn't make much sense, particularly as it
would destroy all existing scores using it.

I think the tagline has its purpose, for example exposing the used
LilyPond version, or for implementing a "Corporate identity" like e.g.
on Mutopia scores. But you are right that the tagline usually looks
unprofessional. It makes more sense to *add* something for use cases
that warrant a tagline than *removing* it in all other cases.

So my vote goes:
Unsetting tagline to "" by default: yes
Removing it: no.

Urs


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